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When was diet soda invented?

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Spurred by the success of these first diet sodas, other soda companies soon began making their own. In 1954, Canada Dry introduced a zero-calorie ginger ale called Glamor. The Royal Cola company released Diet Rite Cola in 1958, which was sweetened with a mixture of cyclamates and saccharin. read more

In order to make a diet soda (at least one people would popularly drink), a sugar substitute was needed. The first such artificial sweetener, saccharin, was discovered by accident. In the late 19th century, Constantin Fahlberg, after a long day working at the lab of the famed chemist Ira Remsen in Baltimore, Maryland, was at home eating dinner when he picked up a roll and bit into it. read more

The first diet soda was called No-Cal Ginger Ale. It was created by Hyman Kirsch, a Russian immigrant to New York. Kirsch founded a soft drink company in 1904 but later became the vice president of the Jewish Sanitarium for Chronic Disease, in New York City. read more

The concept of "diet" refreshments were introduced in early 1950s but the circulation remained strictly local until when Dr.Pepper brand expanded it's boundaries but still people had a notion that these sodas were strictly for diabetic patients . read more

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